Sunday November 8, 2009
Your Reason Will Impact Your Season
Text: Acts 12:1-19
- Your life is a series of seasons.
- Your reason (motivation) for living will
impact (interpretation) your season.
- Quote: We do not live with the facts of our life,
but the interpretation of them.
- Plato's "Cave" Allegory
- In our text two questions arise:
- Why did God allow James to die in prison?
- Why did God allow Peter to be delivered from prison?
- History of Peter, James, and John
- They are linked in their calling,
their experiences, and their motivation
- They loved Jesus, learned from Jesus,
lived for Jesus, and lost for Jesus
- Wearing the marytr's crown
- Some suggestions to helping our motivation
impact our interpretation
1. Look through the lens of reframing
2. Look through the lens of refocusing
3. Look through the lens of refining
4. Look through the lens of reforming
- Final Thought: While
the facts of our life
are continually being edited,
the eternal
truth of God must be our constant
source
of faith, and our filter through which
we
interpret life. Your reason for serving
Jesus Christ is more important than the
season you are
going through. You may
never get the answer
you want to your
questions, but you will
always have a
reason to live life and face another
day.
The God of truth is greater than all
the
facts of life.